Calverleigh Cottage
CALVERLEIGH COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106927
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Calverleigh Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CALVERLEIGH COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106927
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Calverleigh Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CALVERLEIGH COTTAGE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CALVERLEIGH COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Loxbeare
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 92174 14286
Details
SS 91 SW LOXBEARE CALVERLEIGH
13/101 Calverleigh Cottage -
GV II
House. C17 or earlier origins; C19 extension. Colourwashed and rendered, probably stone rubble; slate roof, gabled at ends; end stacks to C19 addition, massive stack with shaft replaced by metal pipe to earlier block. Plan: Symmetrical plan to the C19 block at the left end which consists of 2 principal rooms, one on either side of a passage containing the stair. A short rear wing, gabled to the rear, and a rear lean-to contain service rooms, a stair and an axial passage linking this block to the earlier house at the right. The earlier house consists of 2 rooms, the left one heated, and has been subdivided into smaller rooms on the ground floor. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic to the left, 2 storeys to the right. 3-bay front to the C19 block with a central panelled front door with a rectangular fanlight and a flat porch canopy on moulded brackets. Tall 2-light casements flank the front door, timber sashes with glazing bars to first floor, 2 gabled full dormers to attic. 4 window front to adjoining block approximately in centre, has a lower roofline, front door approximately in centre, fenestration of timber casements with glazing bars. Interior: The older part of the house is of jointed cruck construction and preserves one jointed cruck truss (apex inaccessible at time of survey) over the left hand room and a framed partition above an incomplete section of plank and muntin screen between the 2 rooms. Chamfered axial beam to (sub-divided) right hand room; chamfered scroll-stopped cross beam to left hand room. The massive fireplace is partly blocked but an early lintel and jambs may survive. The C19 block has co-eval chimneypieces and iron grates to the first floor; C18 2-panel doors may be re-used or may survive from an earlier phase of extension.
Listing NGR: SS9217414286
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96744
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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